Vaccines

Spring semester students who do not complete a COVID vaccine sequence by December 17 will be disenrolled.

Ohio Gov. DeWine was in Dayton on Thursday continuing to push the covid vaccine as a way out of the pandemic as cases continue to climb due to the delta variant.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, host Steve Brown discusses the ongoing drama about vaccine mandates going on at the Statehouse. Ohio Public Radio reporter Jo Ingels joins the show.

Members of an Ohio House committee briefly returned from summer break Tuesday to hear public comment on a bill to ban vaccine mandates.

The start of classes comes as the university takes numerous precautions against the delta variant, including a new vaccine mandate.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine spoke out on a bill that would ban mandatory vaccines and so-called vaccine passports, which has been set for a four-hour long hearing next Tuesday, during the legislative break.

Franklin County Recorder Danny O'Connor will begin requiring his employees to be vaccinated or be tested weekly for COVID-19 beginning in early September.

Some members of the Ohio House will be returning to the Statehouse earlier than expected to continue hearings on a bill, HB248, that would ban vaccine mandates for most entities.

It's about to be illegal for Ohio's public school, collegs and universities to make students or staff take a vaccine if it does not have full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.